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Panama and other prominent Panamanian and Zone officials. He also received 
a delegation of the Zone M old-timers. i! 
Through the kind intermediation of Dr, James Zetek, Mr. Paul Allen, 
of the Missouri Bot&nical Garden station here in the Zone gave my seedling 
palms fra® some much needed attention— a good soaking and packing in 
iVtferesT in 
sphagnum moss. The President^‘3BwiB ^^'^^^*5j) * t i »M , w , t»i ^ tfr i n the wiv i lU-JJiUt. Dr* Zetek S 
W orf\ 
-n- rf"; for the Department of Agriculture and the Barro Colorado 
it 
Laboratory and discussed *- '< ra n fr-ww t tin m with him at some length. 
August 5* 
Following an all-day inspection of the Canal Zone, its defenses. 
and adjacent portions of the Republic of Panama, the President boarded the 
Hou ston at the upper Gatun locks. We left at about 6:00 p.m. for the last 
ColoKtb*l<*0 J-l +■ 't* 
leg of our cruise, to Old Providence Island,* in the Caribbean^ otT (ZelSI CcxkS I 
oif Nicaragua, 2 4>0 J-v/iles Vb . 
August 6. Old Providence Island, 
Tit ijiu ) ""0' ; ii ii O .-ial 1 
■Sr 
«a*»aama*vr->4 
Anchored about half past ten in 8 fathoms off Catalina Harbor. The 
hetre 
fishing at- 01 jUPp i airtilfgn m did not amount to much. A few f< mackerel H which 
were given to Captain Roundell, of the Colombian destroyer , Cal da s ,« who earlier 
in the day had paid his respects to the President* and two small young speci- 
mens of the Great Barracuda which were not saved for specimens were all that 
were taken. 
The littoral and reef collecting and the dredging* on the other 
hand* yielded surprisingly rich returns— a npnber of the commoner West Indian 
.SAnd 
Crustacea, mollusks, eehino&erms^ Some fourteen or jfcsdr fifteen species of 
fish, mostly gobies and small rock fishes, were gotten from tide pools along 
shore. Two of the gobies have been determined by Mr. Ginsburg, of the U. S. 
